You can disagree with the stretch of this article, but this is true:
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about the 2016 electorate after dozens of polls, it’s this: The Republicans could have nominated a mile-high mound of flaming medical waste and between 38 and 43 percent of the American electorate would have voted for it over Hillary Rodham Clinton.
(http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/donald-trump-week-five-takeaways-229032)